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Patented Aug. 21, 1894 7 M m J Tome? wwfiw j B. J. BROOKS. SEAL (NoModel.)

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EDWARD J. BROOKS, OF EAST ORANGE, NEW JERSEY, ASSIGNOR TO THE E. J.BROOKS & COMPANY, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

SEAL.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 524,975, dated August21, 1894. Application filed May 28,1894. Serial No. 512,716. (NomodsL) aresident of East Orange, in the State of New A Jersey, have invented anew and useful Improvement in Seals, of which the following is aspecification.

This invention relates primarily to seals comprising rivets of softmetal, commonly lead, and flexible shackles or combined tags andshackles of sheet-metal, commonly tinplate (tin), examples of which areset forth in my specifications forming part of United States LettersPatent No. 260,279, dated June 27, 1882, and No. 505,388, datedSeptember 19, 1893, but may be embodied in part in seals composed whollyof sheet-metal as improvements on the seals set forth in myspecification forming part of Letters Patent No. 324,647, dated August18, 1885. p

The objects of the presentinvention are to securely and neatly unite theends of a sheetmetal shackle in a peculiar manner; and to provide, atonce, for holding the shackle-ends together, preliminary to theapplication of the seal-press, and for providing the improved seal withpress-marks stamped in lead in the act of press-fastening the seal.

The invention consists in certain novel combinations of parts wherebythe above objects respectively are accomplished, as hereinafter setforth and claimed.

A sheet of drawings accompanies this specification as part thereof.

Figure 1 of the drawings represents the.re-

spective sides of an improved seal embodying the whole of the presentinvention, as the same leaves the factory. Fig. 2 represents a sectionaledge view of the same as applied to car-door staples or the like andready for the seal-press; and Fig. 3 is an edge View thereof as itappears after being press-fastened.

Like letters and numbers refer to like parts in all the figures.

The improved seal represented by the drawings is composed of a flexiblesheet-metal shackle A, preferably of ordinary tin (tinplate), a pair ofannular sheet-metal disks B B which may be of thin tin or thin iron orbrass, and a leaden plug or rivet C; said disk B being conveniently solocated as to separate between the body of the shackle and a tag-portionD integral with the shacklebody.

The shackle A and disks B and B are fixedly united with each other atthe factory by eyelet-collars, surrounding holes 1 and 2 central to therespective disks, and upset against the inner faces of the disks aroundtheir central apertures, as in Figs. 1 and 2. The disks B and B arefurther constructed respectively with marginal crown-flanges or rims 3and 4. which project one within the other when the seal is prepared forthe seal-press, as in Fig. 2, and interlock the disks with each other tofasten the seal when the seal-press is applied, as in Fig. 3; the outerrim 3 of the disk B neatly overlapping and inclosing the perimeter ofthe disk B in the pressed seal. The rivet O is preliminarily fastened insaid hole 1 at the factory in the manner set forth in said Patent No.505,388, and is conveniently provided with a flexible retaining finger 5as in said patent. Its main function is to adapt the seal to be stampedwith suitable lettering by the seal-press, and it may be as small aswill suffice for the desired press-marks. In

combination with a sheet-metal shackle A and disks B and B the rivet Cprovided with said finger 5 coacts with the shackle-end which carriessaid disk B to temporarily retain the latter within the rim of the diskB preparatory to the pressing operation, as in Fig. 2.

The specific shackle represented at A with its tag D is a narrow striphaving parallel edges, and adapted to be sheared from the plate like thepreferred form of sheet-metal shackles heretofore used, and may be ofthe dimensions customary for said shackles, or ofany preferreddimensions. While the material is still in the sheet, it is convenientlyprovided with suitable distinguishing marks, represented by thelettering 6 and the serial number 7 in Fig. 1, on the body of theshackle and its tag portion, either or both. After said end of theshackle A carrying the said disk B has been passed through a pair ofsealing staples E or their equivalent applied to a car-door or the like,the seal is made ready, as in Fig. 2, and a suitable seal-press is thenapplied to interlock the disks B and B ICG . with each other, and thusto securely unite the ends of the shackle A to whichsaid disks arefixedly attached, as in Fig. 3. The disks are so interlocked by theirmarginal rimsas above, and, at the same time, if the rivet C be present,it is pressed and stamped in customary manner.

It will be understood that in some cases the rivet O as well as thetag-portion D may be wholly omitted; the eyelet-collars at the holes 1and 2 may be formed on the disks B and B instead of on the shackle Awith like effect; the rim of the disk B may be omitted;

and other like modifications will suggest by eyelet-collars at saidholes, one of said disks having a marginal rim adapted to tightlyoverlap and inclose the perimeter of the other disk and thus to securelyfasten the seal, substantially as hereinbefore specified.

2. The combination of a flexible sheet-metal shackle having apair ofholes, a pair of annular disksof sheet-metal fixedly attached to saidshackle by eyelet-collars at said holes, one of said disks having amarginal rim adapted to interlock the disks with each other to fastenthe seal, and a soft-metal rivet, to receive desired press-marks,preliminarily fastened within one of said holes in the shackle, andprovided with a flexible finger to hold the other disk within said rimpreparatory to the pressing operation, substantially as herein- N. s.KLINE,

GEO. J. WENK.

